Morning Market Internals

NYSE Composite Index:

• Volume Running -4.2% Below 100-Day Average 
• Nasdaq/NYSE Volume Ratio 10.0 -.2
  
• 2 Sectors Declining, 9 Sectors Rising
• 51.0% of Issues Advancing, 45.6% Declining
• 62 New 52-Week Highs, 12 New Lows
• 56.9%(+.9%) of Issues Above 200-day Moving Average
• Average 14-Day RSI 53.0 +7.0
  
• Bloomberg Global Risk-On/Risk-Off Index 66.7 -.1%
  
• Russell 1000: Growth/Value 15,021.6 +.61%
  
• Vix 18.7 +1.1%
• Total Put/Call .94 +4.4%
• TRIN/Arms .79 +6.9%
  

Monday Watch

Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:                     

• China’s Modest GDP Growth Target Reduces Need for More Stimulus.  
• China Markets Set for Weak Showing as Growth Target Disappoints.
• China Aims to Boost Grain Capacity Under New Food Security Push.  
• Missing Banker Reignites Fear of Xi Among China's Tech Bosses.
  
• Top Japan Cosmetics Analyst Says Street Is Too Bullish on China.
• South Korea Inflation Slows, Easing Pressure on Central Bank.
• Europe’s Surging Inflation Bets Undercut Lagarde’s Rate Campaign.
  
• World’s Riskiest Markets Stumble Into Crisis With Dollars Scarce.
• Ukraine Latest: US Evaluates Kyiv Pilots; Estonian Election Test.
•   Dollar Edges Higher as Traders Weigh China Outlook: Markets Wrap.
• Saudi Arabia Raises Oil Prices for Asia and Europe for April.  
• Forget Peak Oil Demand: A Thirst for Barrels Puts $100 in View. 
•   Five Key Charts to Watch in Global Commodity Markets This Week.
• Powell Set to Lay Groundwork for Higher Rates on Capitol Hill.
  
• US Jobs Report and Powell Testimony Take Center Stage. 
• Plan to Target ‘Unregulated’ Expansion in Property Market.
• Stock Market’s Fate Comes Down to the Next 13 Trading Sessions.
• NYC Mayor Adams Says Chicago Election Is ‘Warning Sign’ on Crime.
• Weather Warnings Brought Forward as Arctic Air Arrives Early.  
• Apple Supplier Foxconn’s Sales Decline Despite China Reopening.  
• Commodity Traders Saw $100 Billion Year as Market Boomed, Says Report.  
• ESG Funds Hit by ‘Staggering’ Inflows Head for Issuance Freeze.   
• Harris Associates Sells Entire Credit Suisse Stake, FT Reports.

Wall Street Journal:

• Companies Disclose CEOs’ Actual Pay for First Time.
• Wall Street Concedes There Is Finally an Alternative to Stocks.
• China Sets Lowest Economic Growth Target in Decades.
• Bars, Hotels and Restaurants Become the Economy’s Fastest-Growing Employers.
• Russia’s Troops Wear Out Ukrainian Forces in Bakhmut.
• Why Elite Law and Medical Schools Can’t Stand U.S. News. Our rankings provide students vital, accurate data. Administrators don’t like to be held accountable.
• Pentagon Sees Giant Cargo Cranes as Possible Chinese Spying Tools.
• Facial Recognition: The Creepy Convenience.
• EVs Boost Chip Demand Despite Semiconductor Makers’ Woes.
• Texts From Crypto Giant Binance Reveal Plan to Elude U.S. Authorities.
• Effort to Ban Stock Trading Among Executive Branch Officials Renewed.

Fox News:

• We are living through the largest, deadliest scandal in American history.
• Top Democrat sounds the alarm on conservative counties pushing to leave liberal state.
• '60 Minutes' tries turning back the clock after declaring lab leak theory 'debunked'. 
• DeSantis rips Dem governor in his own backyard, says state ‘hemorrhaging population’.

CNBC:

• One of the biggest autonomous vehicle experiments is deep underwater.
• China to increase defense spending by 7.2%. 
• Senators to launch bill that will help ban or prohibit foreign tech like TikTok.

Zero Hedge:    

• Fauci 'Prompted' Scientists To Fabricate 'Proximal Origins' Paper Ruling Out Lab-Leak: House GOP.
• Communities Block, Ban Dollar Stores Amid Nationwide Invasion.
• Flynn Sues DOJ, FBI For Malicious Prosecution, Wants $50 Million.
• Hedge Fund CIO: "Are Inverted Yield Curves Really Saying What We Think They're Saying".
• Weekend News Round Up - Newsquawk Asia-Pac Market Open.
• TME Weekend.
• Thank Goodness For Friday.
• Goldman: The Big Near-Term Risk Here Is If The Fed Opens Up 50s.
• Doctors, Scientists Call On Mississippi Officials To Take COVID Vaccines Off The Market. 
• China People's Congress Reveals Conservative GDP Target Of Just 5% For 2023.
• Employers Frequently Overlook Resumes Which Include "They/Them" Pronouns.
• Washington Post: Yes, The Biden Loan Forgiveness May Be Unconstitutional But...
• Biden's Executive Order Nightmare: Government Will Track Every Dime You Spend.
• Matt King Explains Why Stocks Refuse To Go Down In Two Minutes.
• Employers Frequently Overlook Resumes Which Include "They/Them" Pronouns.
• Growing Number Of Dems, Republicans Split Over Military Aid To Ukraine.
• Why so resilient?
• Top Food Brands Virtue Signal 'Healthy Diets' While Cashing In On Junk Food.
• San Francisco 'Opens The Door' To Supervised Drug Consumption Sites.
• The Global Internet Kill Switch.
• The Attack Of The Subversive Elites.
• These Are The Most (And Least) Expensive Cities To Live In.
• Trump Promises "Quantum Leap" For A New America.
• WHO Urges Countries To Reveal Intel On COVID Origins After FBI Director's Statements.
• Snowed-In And Terrified: Trapped California Mountain Residents Plea For Help.
• Residents Told To Shelter In Place After Norfolk Southern Freight Train Derails In Ohio.
• Another FBI Whistleblower Says He Was Forced To Inflate Domestic Terrorism Numbers.

MarketWatch.com: 

• Stock market faces crucial test this week: 3 questions that could decide rally’s fate.
• ‘Love him or hate him’: New ETFs let investors bet on or against Jim Cramer and his stock picks.
  
• Apple’s stock has 5 overlooked catalysts that will drive it higher, analyst says.

NewsMax:

• Trump to Newsmax: Dems Have Weaponized Justice in the US.  
• China's Silence Thwarts Effort to Discern COVID Origin.

TheGatewayPundit.com: 

• J6 Political Prisoners at DC Gulag Leak Heart-Breaking Video from Inside Jail Praying and Singing National Anthem – VIDEO. 
• In 2022 New Zealand Recorded Its Largest Increase in Deaths in a Century.
• Democrat Biden Challenger Marianne Williamson Says the DNC Is “Rigging” The System for Biden.
• Business Leader Kevin O’Leary: Blue States Are Becoming ‘Uninvestable’ (VIDEO).
• Thousands of Belgian Farmers Join Protest Against Globalist Reset Plans.
• Parents Defend Transitioning Child – Say They Knew Their Child Was Trans “Before She(He) Could Ever Speak” (VIDEO).
• The UK Lockdown Files: Text Messages Reveal How Top British Health Officials Conspired to “Scare the Pants Off Everyone” and Asking “When Do We Deploy the New Variant?”.
• FOX News Hides the Real CPAC Straw Poll Results – Shows Nikki Haley in 3rd When She Was 4th to Businessman Perry Johnson.
• Democrats Turn on ‘Joke Candidate’ Marianne Williamson for Launching 2024 Primary Challenge to Joe Biden – But Bumbling Joe Biden Is Not a Joke?
• Why Is Late-Night Bully Jimmy Kimmel Mocking Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers For Mentioning Upcoming Release of Jeffrey Epstein Client List? [VIDEO].
• Spate of Whale Strandings Near Offshore Wind Projects Becoming Impossible to Ignore – But Feds Still Deny Link.
• DEVELOPING: Residents Told to Shelter in Place After Train Derailment in Springfield, Ohio (VIDEO).

The Epoch Times:

• China Outpaces US in Military Ship Buildup: Former Intelligence Officer.

Twitter:

• @kylenabecker - Biden Executive Order Paves the Way for ‘Woke’ Artificial Intelligence.
• @texasrunnerDFW - Why are young people still throwing money at 0DTE, vacations, crypto, STRs, quitting jobs, taking huge car loans? If any generation calls the Federal Reserve’s bluff, it will be Millennials or Gen Z Many of us have nothing but debt And that means we have nothing to lose.
• @TPostMillenial - BREAKING: Far-left extremists TORCH future cop training center in Atlanta, direct action was announced on Twitter.
• @Mayhem4Markets - Hedgie net leverage is rather low. (graph)
• @GameofTrades_ - The stage is set for delinquencies to rise. Bank tightening is a good leading indicator for loan defaults. Tighter standards = defaults. (graph)
• @JamesMelville - Sweden had the lowest overall cumulative excess deaths in countries analysed by the OECD during the pandemic era from March 2020 to June 2022. Even lower than Finland, Norway and Denmark.

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 938,175 Reports(+1,692 from prior week) Through February 17th, 2023.
  

SKirsch.com:

• Using the MGH numbers with our own VAERS queries, we have 247 cases per million doses from the MGH study divided by 5.97 cases per million doses from VAERS. 247/5.97 = 41. This suggests that the VAERS under-reporting factor (URF) is 41X.

Night Trading

• Asian indices are unch. to +1.0% on average.
• Asia Ex-Japan Investment Grade CDS Index 110.0 -2.5 basis points.
• China Sovereign CDS 64.75 -2.75 basis points.
• China Iron Ore Spot 122.0 USD/Metric Tonne -2.7%
  
• Bloomberg Emerging Markets Currency Index 47.7 +.07%.
• Bloomberg Global Risk-On/Risk Off Index 67.2 +.53%.
• Bloomberg US Financial Conditions Index .25 -4.0 basis points. 
  
• Volatility Index(VIX) futures 20.7 +.02%. 
• Euro Stoxx 50 futures +.26%.
• S&P 500 futures -.03%.
• NASDAQ 100 futures -.04%.

Morning Preview Links

BOTTOM LINE: Asian indices are mostly higher, boosted by technology and consumer shares in the region. I expect US stocks to open mixed and to rally into the afternoon, finishing modestly higher.  The Portfolio is 75% net long heading into the week.

Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:

• China Defends Growing Military Budget Before Annual Congress.  
• China Sets Modest Growth Target as Economic Risks Persist.  
• What Wall Street Gets Wrong About Xi Jinping’s New Money Men  
• China Sets 2023 Economic Goals; Deficit Ratio at 3%: NPC Update.   
• NYC TikTok Dating Diary Chronicles Love in the Time of Inflation
• Russia Is Getting Around Sanctions to Secure Supply of Key Chips for War.  
• Ukraine Latest: Saudi Generators Sent; Bakhmut Battles Continue.
  
• Arm Heads for US Listing as London’s Investment Appeal Unravels.
• Biden Hears Oval Office Plea for Alaska Oil Project in Lobbying Frenzy.
  
• Silvergate Shuts Crypto Payments Network It Once Hyped.  
• Bankman-Fried Gets a Flip Phone While Out on Bail, US Says.  
• Gen-Z ETF to Shutter After Teenage Values Pitch Falls Flat.
• Fed’s Daly Says More Rate Hikes Likely Needed to Cool Inflation.
• Subway’s Potential $10 Billion Sale Draws Goldman, Bain: Sky.  
• Anti-ESG Crusader Wants to Take Trump’s Agenda to ‘Next Level’.
  
• US Jobs Report and Powell Testimony Take Center Stage: Eco Week.

Wall Street Journal: 

• Electric Shock: Plug-Ins Get Cheaper.
• U.S. Prepares New Rules on Investment in China.
• How Chili’s Is Prepping for Tough Times, Starting With the Fries.
• Cuts at Amazon, Other Tech Firms Don’t Spell Recession Yet.
• We’re Suffering an Excess of Justice. The term has been redefined, from righteous conduct to gratuitous meanness.
• Goldman Sachs Doesn’t Want to Be Everyone’s Bank, but It Has to Be Someone’s.
• Ukrainian Forces, Under Renewed Russian Pressure, Seek to Reinforce Bakhmut.
• U.S. Prepares New Rules on Investment in China.
• China Remains the World’s Pandemic Risk. How the first human was infected with Covid is critical because such outbreaks won’t be stopped once they start.

Barron's:

• Had bullish commentary on (FPI), (TITN), (DE), (AGCO), (ASML), (UL), (BOOT) and (CB).

Fox News:

• Maher touts COVID 'dissenters' following lab leak developments.
• WATCH: The question that caused Biden to turn and walk away from reporters.
• Walmart shutters stores in Dem-run city after CEO's crime warnings. 
• USA Powerlifting must change rules on trans athletes after losing major discrimination case. 
• Hazmat, emergency crews respond to another train derailment in Ohio.

CNBC:

• Salesforce faces an underappreciated risk: Platform customers jumping ship like Veeva.

Zero Hedge:

• Watch: Samantha Power Lets Slip The US Is At War With Russia, But "Ukrainians Doing The Fighting".
• States Can Break Through Pharma's Liability Shield.
• First-Time Homebuyers Are Absolutely Screwed Right Now.
• US Issues Ultra-Rare Rebuke Of Israeli Top Minister: "Repugnant & Disgusting".
• Discover Credit Cards Will Track Gun Purchases From April.
• Biden Walks Away From Question About Holding China Accountable For COVID Origin.
• Sentiment & Positioning.
• "Fu*king Amateur Hour": Democrats Livid At Biden Over DC Crime Bill Flip-Flop.
• India: The Next Front In The War On The BRICS.
• Auditors Are Finding Millions In Mishandled COVID-Era Education Funds.
• More Than 75% Of Americans Aged 17-24 Aren't Fit For Military Service: DOD.
• Feinstein, Fetterman Hospitalizations May Mean Trouble For Democrats.
• One Year Later In Ukraine: Washington And NATO Got It Very Wrong.
• 'Triple-Digit' La Nina Ending As El Nino May Strike Soon.
• Brace Yourself For Extreme Economic Turbulence.
• Twitter Challenges Persist As December Revenues, Adjusted Earnings Dropped 40%.
• Politics And Propaganda: Why Putin Won't Pull Out Of Ukraine.
• "Boon For Europe": US NatGas Flows To Freeport LNG Hit 'Record High'.
• Bear market rally?
• NATO Member Says 50 Billion Euros In Aid To Ukraine "Far From" Satisfying, Urges Allies To Boost Spending.
• Ford Files For Patent That Can "Remotely Shut Down" Parts Of Your Car When Your Bill Isn't Paid.
• More Than Half Of Global Population Overweight Or Obese By 2035: Report.
• GOP Congressman Introduces Bill To 'Dismantle ATF's Record Keeping' Of Gun Purchases.
• New Biden Cyber Strategy Takes Aim At China As 'Most Persistent Threat'. 
• LA Elites Spend $150,000 For Protection Dogs As Crime Fears Worsen.
• Power Shortages Coming Soon To America. 
• Victor Davis Hanson: The Woke Wrecking Machine.
• Biden Vows To Ban So-Called Assault Weapons 'Come Hell Or High Water'.
• Nice Rally You Got There, There's Just One Problem...

MarketWatch.com:       

• Year 3 of a U.S. president’s term is bullish for stocks, but 2023’s gain is probably over by now.
• Fed’s Daly sees need for ‘higher for longer’ interest-rate policy.
• Powell to talk to Congress about the possibility of more interest-rate hikes, not fewer.
  
• Opinion: ‘We remain in the soft-landing club’: Strategist Ed Yardeni’s bullish scenario puts S&P 500 up more than 20% by end of 2023.  
• Buying stocks is just not worth the risk today, these analysts say. They have a better way for you to get returns as high as 5%.

NewsMax:

• Report: Rep. Jordan Wants 16 FBI Employees to Testify in Whistleblower Probe.
• Trump to CPAC: In 'Battle of Our Lives' to Save US, Party.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• JUST IN: “I’m NOT Stopping or Giving Up!” – James O’Keefe Reveals Pfizer Whistleblower On Stage In First Appearance Since He Was Ousted From Project Veritas (VIDEO).
• JUST IN: Presidential Candidate Who’s Never Held a Political Office Beats Out Nikki Haley and Mike Pence For Third Place In CPAC Straw Poll.
• Trump at CPAC: We’re Never Going Back to the Party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove and Jeb Bush (VIDEO).
• Yikes! MTG Tells Fired Up MAGA Crowd at CPAC She Was Right to Support McCarthy – Met with Silence (VIDEO).
• 31-Year-Old Colorado Woman Pregnant By 13-Year-Old Boy Faces No Jail Time.
• Union Fights Back Against Biden’s New “Pronoun Policy” For Federal Workers.
• “The Greatest Perpetrator of Misinformation During the Pandemic has been the United States Government.” Dr. Marty Makary.
• Russell Brand Destroys MSNBC Analyst, Big Pharma Over COVID Vaccines And MSNBC’s Bias (VIDEO).
• CNN Surprisingly Publishes Investigative Piece About Oklahoma City Police Officer Who Was Mysteriously Shot Dead After Oklahoma City Bombing.
• China-Endorsed WHO Demands US Officials Release Proof COVID was Leaked from Wuhan Lab.
• Must See: Pfizer is Unable to Finish Press Conference Because their Spokespeople Keep Collapsing – Hysterical Parody Video by The Babylon Bee.
• PATHETIC: German Chancellor Meets with Joe Biden in White House – Doesn’t Have the Guts to Rip Biden for Blowing Up the Nord Stream Gas Pipeline to Germany.
• Biden Regime Admits They’re Prioritizing Climate Goals Over “Energy Security” in Leaked Memo.

The Epoch Times:

• Biden Walks Away From Question About Holding China Accountable for COVID Origin.

Twitter:

• @IGSquawk - Weekend markets update: #DAX 15634 -0.06% #DOW 33377 -0.07% #NASDAQ 12300 -0.05% #FTSE 7956 +0.03% #HANGSENG 20655 +0.01% #GBPUSD 12037 -0.06% #EURUSD 10635 +0.01% #USDJPY 13585 +0.02%.

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 938,175 Reports(+1,692 from prior week) Through February 17th, 2023. 

SKirsch.com:

• Using the MGH numbers with our own VAERS queries, we have 247 cases per million doses from the MGH study divided by 5.97 cases per million doses from VAERS. 247/5.97 = 41. This suggests that the VAERS under-reporting factor (URF) is 41X.

Evening Headlines

Bloomberg:

• Biden Lauds Germany’s Military Aid to Ukraine in Scholz Meeting.   
• Japanese Unions Seek Biggest Pay Rise in 25 Years for Workers.
• Retailers Fear High-Flying US Consumers Are Falling Back to Earth.
• Stock Traders Are Ignoring Blaring Bond Alarms.  
• Fed Says More Rate Hikes Are Needed to Curb Inflation.
  
• US Service Sector Expands More Than Forecast Suggesting Hiring Success.
• Oil Set to Post Weekly Gain as UAE Refutes Report of OPEC Exit.
• Barkin Favors Fed Acting More Deliberately Than Hikes Last Year.
• Larry Summers Urges Fed’s Powell to Open Door to 50 Basis Points in March.
• Credit Suisse First Boston Will Have Goldman Sachs-like Partners.  
• Texas Anti-ESG Push Is Coming for Insurers and Pensions in New Bills.
  
• Silvergate Shuts Crypto Payments Network It Once Hyped.  
• Apple’s Cloud Chief to Leave, Adding to Wave of Departures.  
• Panic Over Metals for EVs Goes All the Way to Automakers’ C-Suites.  
• California Weighs $360,000 in Reparations to Eligible Black Residents. Will Others Follow?

Wall Street Journal: 

• Crypto Companies Behind Tether Used Falsified Documents, Shell Companies to Get Bank Accounts.
• Ancient Antioch Survived Many Disasters in Its 2,400 Years—Turkey’s Earthquake Obliterated It. 
• To Fight Inflation, Fed Tightening Should Go Faster and Further. The labor market and wage data call for a 50-basis-point increase and a terminal rate closer to 6%.
• Biden’s ESG Veto Is Revealing. He says he’ll block a bipartisan resolution that protects worker savings from political investing.
• Wagner Chief Says Ukraine's Bakhmut Is Effectively Surrounded.
• ATM Numbers Fall as Consumers Shun Cash.
• China’s Xi Shrugs Off Criticism in Push for More Control.
• Afghan Women, Banned From Working, Can’t Provide for Their Children.

Fox News:

• Harry and Meghan may demand massive payout after Charles evicts them from royal residence.

CNBC:

• Google execs say in testy all-hands meeting that Bard A.I. tool isn’t just for search.
• Inside the fierce debate over clean hydrogen, with $100 billion in federal subsidies on the line.
• Meta announces big price cuts for its VR headsets.
• Bitcoin sinks 3.5% for the week, and Illinois weighs new crypto regulatory regime: CNBC Crypto World.

Zero Hedge:

• EPA Head Admits Kids Should Be Nowhere Near East Palestine Water.
• Hunter Biden Linked To Chinese Military Firm Helping Russia Fight Ukraine.
• Hartnett: "The End Of The Bear Market Will Coincide With A Credit Event".
• Los Angeles Police Union Says Officers Should No Longer Respond To Certain Calls.
• Will DeSantis Rescue Republicans Or Let Them Down?
• 10 Shocking Public Freakouts That Will Have You Shaking Your Head.
• Iran President Says Foreign Enemies Behind Poisonings At Girls' Schools.
• Interest Rates: The Silent Killer.
• Rickards: One Of The Biggest Propaganda Campaigns Ever...
• Blinken Unveils $400 Million More In Arms With Ukraine Against The Ropes In Bakhmut.
• Is This The Greatest Job Of Political Trolling Ever?
• US Beef Herd Drops To Lowest Since 1962 As Global Food Crisis Intensifies.
• CNN 'Lost A F*ckload Of Credibility' Over COVID Propaganda: Joe Rogan.
• Washington Post Lets Hersh's Dangerous Cat Out Of The Bag.
• Big Squeeze Breaks Stocks' Losing Streak As Bond Curve Screams Recession.
• Stocks and Bonds ramp into the weekend as shorts cover - Newsquawk US Market Wrap.
• Amazon 'Pauses' HQ2 Construction In Virginia Amid Sweeping Job Cuts.
• Watch: Jon Stewart Slams "Media Narrative Machine" For Dismissing Lab-Leak As "Conspiracy Theory".
• Here Are The Top 5 Questions Wall Street Asks About 0DTE Options.
• US Army Secretary Says US Preparing To Win A War With China.

MarketWatch.com:     

• ‘The housing market is crumbling’ under higher mortgage rates and rock-bottom affordability: Prices fell the most in these states. 
  
• Biden had small cancerous lesion removed, White House doctor says.  
• Is the U.S. housing market headed for a crash? ‘It all depends on how high rates go,’ mortgage veteran says.   
• ‘Affordability is hindered’: Mortgage rates rise for fourth week in a row, surpass 7%.   
• Ford seeks patent to repossess a car remotely — by locking owners out of their cars and cutting off AC.  
• These 24 tech stocks stand out now as the FAANGs fade.

NewsMax: 

• Rep. Dusty Johnson: DirecTV Acting Like CCP.
• House GOP to Follow Senate in Bill Declassifying COVID Origin Intel.
• Gaines, Talbot: Left Can't Handle Diversity of Thought.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• Dr. Peter McCullough On “The Holy Grail Of COVID-19 Vaccine Detoxification”.
• Atheist Group Furious at New University of Colorado Coach Deion Sanders for ‘Infusing His Program with Christianity’.
• Get Woke, Go Broke: Christian School in Missouri Goes Bankrupt After Embracing the Radical-Left LGBTQ Agenda.
• JUST IN: Arizona Supreme Court Agrees To Expedite Kari Lake’s Election Fraud Lawsuit, Internal Conference Scheduled for MARCH 21 – ORDER INCLUDED.
• Nikki Haley Delivers Cringey CPAC Speech to Very Empty Room (VIDEO).
• Biden’s EPA Awards Nearly $1 Billion in Climate Grants – At the Same Time They Order Pause to Cleanup in East Palestine.
• 31-Year-Old Star of ‘Elvis’ Movie Was Rushed to ER When ‘Body Just Started Shutting Down’.
• “Where the Hell Is Chief Justice Roberts?… Where the Hell Are They?” – General Mike Flynn Goes Off on SCOTUS as America Loses Its Justice System to Tyrants (AUDIO).
• Seattle School District Laying Off Employees Due to Plummeting Student Enrollment.

The Epoch Times:

• US Army Surging Munitions Production Amid Shortage Fears.
• Billionaire Investor Warns to Be ‘Very Careful Investing in China’ Amid Capital Crackdown Fears.

Twitter:

• @MikeZaccardi - Supply-driven inflation is fading, but demand remains resilient. (graph)
• @TPostMillennial - Workers at the East Palestine derailment site are reportedly experiencing "migraines and nausea".
• @Jkylebass - So let me get this straight…the US and Europe (44% of global GDP) are each down one billion tons of emissions while China (18% of global GDP) has recklessly expanded 7 billion tons over the same time frame. (graph)
• @jsolomonReports - Fox News host says he 'strongly' disagrees with network's ban on covering Dominion lawsuit.
• @goddeketal - This man debunked climate science in 90 seconds. (video)
• @Risemelbourne - Don't be fooled, "15 Minute Cities" are a full blown Surveillance cages... Nothing more nothing less. (video)

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 938,175 Reports(+1,692 from prior week) Through February 17th, 2023. 

SKirsch.com:

• Using the MGH numbers with our own VAERS queries, we have 247 cases per million doses from the MGH study divided by 5.97 cases per million doses from VAERS. 247/5.97 = 41. This suggests that the VAERS under-reporting factor (URF) is 41X.